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Ateleopodidae (Jellynose fishes)
Etymology: Guentherus: From Albert Günther (1830-1914), author of fifty volumes about fishes life in the British Museum (Ref. 45335).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino batidemersale; distribuzione batimetrica 200 - 800 m (Ref. 6717). Deep-water; 42°N - 35°S, 92°W - 19°E
Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to South Africa. Eastern Central Pacific: Cabo Blanco and Quepos, Costa Rica and near Punta Jaqué, Panama (Ref. 9272); also Galapagos Islands (Ref. 9227).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 200 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 5528)
Spine dorsali (totale): 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale): 11-13; Spine anali 0; Raggi anali molli: 69 - 80. Adults dark brown, juveniles transparent with black blotches along body and fins (Ref. 5528).
Inhabits upper continental slopes (Ref. 27121). Benthic (Ref. 51024). Feeds on fishes (Ref. 6717).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Costa, M.J. and J.-C. Quéro, 1990. Ateleopodidae. p. 644-645. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 6550)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Pesca: di potenziale interesse
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 7.5 - 12.3, mean 9.6 °C (based on 83 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.7502 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01122 (0.00514 - 0.02450), b=3.04 (2.87 - 3.21), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.5 ±0.42 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Very high vulnerability (90 of 100).